INTROIT

Miserere mei (Psalm 56)

Priest:  Be merciful unto me, O God, for man goeth  about to devour me:
People: He is daily fighting and troubling me.  §

Priest:  Mine enemies are daily in hand to swallow me up:
People: For they be many that fight against me.

(Repeat to §.)

Leet thy bountiful goodness, O Lord, we beseech thee, sanctify this our fasting: and effectually bestow upon us the remission of all our sins.  Through.

COLLECT 2 Of Ash Wednesday

ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made, and dost forgive the sins of all those who are penitent; Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of thee, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. [Who.]
 

THE LESSON

Jonah 3.1-10

In those days: The word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time, saying,  Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.  So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.  And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.  So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.  For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.  And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:  But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.  Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?  And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
 
 
GRADUAL

Priest:   (Psalm 54) Hear my prayer, O God: and hearken unto the words of my mouth.
People:  Save me, O God, for thy Name's sake: and avenge me in thy strength.

TRACT

Priest:   (Psalm 103) O Lord, deal not with us after our sins:
People:   Nor reward us according to our wickedness.
Priest:   (Psalm 79)  Lord, remember not our old sins, but have mercy upon us,
People:   And that soon, for we are come to great misery.

ALL GENUFLECT

Priest:   Help us, O God  of our salvation,
People:   For the glory of thy Name, O Lord
Priest:   O deliver us and be merciful unto our sins,
People:   For thy Name’s sake.

 
THE GOSPEL

St. John 7.32-39

At that time: The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him.  Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me.  Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come.  Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?  What manner of saying is this that he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come?  In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.  He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.  But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive.
 
 
OFFERTORY  Psalm 6
 
Turn thee, O Lord, and deliver my soul: O save me for thy mercy's sake.

SECRET

Grant, we beseech thee, O Lord our God:  that this saving victim may effectually avail, both for the cleanssing of our souls from all their sins, and for the obtaining of the favour of thy heavenly Majesty.  Through.

SECRET 2  Of Ash Wednesday

Grant, we beseeh thee, O Lord, that like as we do by these our oblations bring to remembrance the institution of this holy Sacrament, so we may by thee be enabled to offer the same according to thy will.  Through.

COMMUNION  Psalm 24

The Lord of hosts; he is the king of glory.

POSTCOMMUNION

O Lord, who hast made us partakers in this Sacrament of our salvation: grant, we beseech thee, that the same may be profitable unto us both for the cleansing and the healing of our souls.  Through.

POSTCOMMUNION 2  Of Ash Wednesday

We beseech thee, Lord, mercifully to protect us who have now received this holy Sacrament: that this our fast may be acceptable in thy sight, and profitable unto us for the healing of our souls.  Through.

Over the people.

Let us pray.  Bow down before the Lord.

COLLECT

Keep, we beseech thee, O Lord, thy faithful people, both outwardly in their bodies and inwardly in their souls: that they, cleaving stedfastly to all good works, may ever be defended by thy mighty power.  Through.
 

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